WJRO represents world Jewry in pursuing claims for the recovery of Jewish properties in Europe (outside of Germany and Austria). WJRO was established by leading world Jewish organizations to address the restitution of Jewish property and to remind the world that the time has come to redress the enormous material wrongs caused to European Jewry during the Holocaust.

Belarus

WJRO Belarus Operations

Kobrin Synagogue

There are no laws in Belarus which deal with the restitution of either immovable communal or private property expropriated during the Holocaust era. A few synagogue buildings, as well as the Volozhin yeshiva, have been transferred by the government to the Jewish community, but most properties are in a state of disrepair.